If you were to light a match inside of Jupiter's Atmosphere would the planet go up in flames?
Is Jupiter basically a failed star?
2007-11-25 04:30:28 · 6 answers · asked by Jansen J 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I base my first question on the fact that Jupiter is made up of mostly hydrogen.
2007-11-25 04:34:39 · update #1
The burning of hydrogen is a chemical reaction involving oxygen. There isn't any there.
If you're thinking that there's a parallel with the sun because of the hydrogen atmosphere, the hydrogen at the core of the sun is under such pressure that it fuses into helium. Lighting a fire won't cause that.
Jupiter would have to be 15 times more massive to get anywhere near stellar evolution.
2007-11-25 09:55:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it would not. Jupiter has almost no oxygen. It is made up of other gases. It is 90% Hydrogen and 10% Helium with traces of amonia and and other gases. If Jupiter were 8 times more massive as it is it would be massive enough to become a Brown Drarf. A small star. Then it would be massive enough to change hydrogen into helium like the sun and release enough energy to glow on it's own. It would glow dark red and be very visible in the night sky. And by the way, the sun dosen't burn (as in fire) either.
2007-11-25 13:16:24 · answer #2 · answered by Jackolantern 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First Jupiter is way to small to become a star and thats exactly why it didnt, Secondly no Jupiter would not explode if subjected to open flame, Lighting stikes it over and ove in mass storms and besides the nasa crashed the galileo spacecraft into it with unspent fuel and it would have exploded as it was entering the depths of jupiter,,
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-UIg.7BojaKEKybeC5rMiNm7T?l=21&u=25&mx=67&lmt=5
2007-11-25 12:37:06 · answer #3 · answered by SPACEGUY 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Despite the fact that it has a huge amount of hydrogen, you wouldn't get an explosion, because there are no reactants in the atmosphere, like oxygen or chlorine.
2007-11-25 12:36:17 · answer #4 · answered by Brant 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No the planet wouldn't go up in flames.
And there have been a few theories that Jupiter and the Sun were competing, but obviously the sun won.
2007-11-25 12:33:20 · answer #5 · answered by Seung Hee 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, because the atmosphere is too dense to allow things to burn - even all of the hydrogen in the atmosphere on jupiter.
Yes.
2007-11-25 12:34:57 · answer #6 · answered by Brian L 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋